Hey its Min from The Art of Verbal War, where people learn to excel in verbal skills.
Today's character study is about Chael Sonnen, the American MMA fighter, one-time political
candidate, and most relevant to us here, a total verbal genius.
Chael Sonnen is this era's Muhammed Ali when it comes to be a badass in verbal skills.
The top trash talking athlete of his generation.
What do I mean by being a verbal badass?
Well, what I mean by that is that he's verbally dominant.
It doesn't matter the situation, he can and does outtalk any opponent.
He's lost his fair share of fistfights but he's never lost any battle of words.
He's the undisputed heavyweight champ of verbal skills.
Now, I want to give you two essential techniques to be verbally dominant like Chael Sonnen.
These two techniques will help you outtalk the other person in a verbal confrontation,
so let's check them out.
The first technique is what I call the "Master/Servant" frame.
Let me give you a few examples.
Here he's talking about Vitor Belfort: "Maybe you could give Vitor a couple of messages
for me.
If my name comes out of his mouth again, I will bury him where he stands.
And second off, tell Vitor to meet me at the hotel in 30 minutes because daddy has a plane
to catch and I'm summoning him to carry my luggage."
Here he's talking about Brock Lesnar: "If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take
my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back
to me".
In both of those two examples, Sonnen is using what I call the "master/servant" frame.
By that I mean, in any verbal interaction, he considers himself the master and he considers
the other person his servant.
If you view yourself and the other person this way, then the words will just naturally
flow from the frame like it does for Chael Sonnen.
Now, if you want to learn more about frame and frame control, check out my Jessica Pearson
video which is linked above.
Now, one tip: don't go walking around all the time considering yourself the master and
everyone else the servant.
That's definitely not going to go over too well in real life.
But in a verbal confrontation, this is potentially great frame to have.
But no matter what, the key is to find a relationship between you and your opponent in a verbal
confrontation and then have the words flow naturally from that frame.
This master/servant frame is just one classic verbal confrontation frame among many others.
Now, let's move on to the second technique I promised you which is what I call "indirectness".
If you want to be verbally dominant, you never want to say what it is you want to say too
directly.
Great trash talking is never about curse words or using obvious and played out insults.
For full effect, you want to say whatever it is that you want to say INDIRECTLY, not
directly.
By doing that, you ensure that you're not just repeating played out, uncreative insults
like a drone.
Now, let me give you a few examples of this by Chael Sonnen. #1 - "Big night!
We get to find out who the #2 and #3 middleweights in the business are."
#2 - "Lyoto, don't feel bad that you don't have the belt.
You still have that little cotton one my nephew has".
#3 - "Come on trains, planes, or bikes, but here's a little advice.
Don't send no one you like, cause you come to my home running your mouth you're gonna
be shakin' hands with Jesus or the man further South".
So in the first example, Chael Sonnen doesn't say that he's #1.
Instead, he says "we get to find out who #2 and #3 middleweights in the business are",
IMPLYING that he's #1.
In the second example, he doesn't say "You still have your white belt".
Instead, to be more devastating he says "You have that little cotton one my nephew has".
In the third example, Chael doesn't say "I'm going to kill you".
He says "You're gonna be shakin' hands with Jesus or the man further South".
So, indirectness...that's the true essence of having great verbal skills.
Now, if you want to learn more about how to become verbally dominant like Chael Sonnen,
you may be interested in my course Verbal Domination, a course on the offensive side
of verbal skills.
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This is Min Liu from The Art of Verbal War.